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Guided Walks, Guided Foraging and Orchid Hunting
In May of 2020, after receiving grant funding from the Covid19 grant fund via the CVS, we attempted to bring together people through...


Why bash the Balsam?
What a successful day today, with our first public event on Leverhulme park since lockdown. We made sure that all of the social...


100 Family Grow kits - May of 2020
In May of 2020, we applied for grant funding from the CVS that would help spread information about Covid19, encourage people to safely...


Two silt traps - Five ponds - Leverhulme Park
Who doesn't love digging silt, soil and sand out of a hillside to create five ponds? It turned out to be a pretty obvious answer as only...


Lessons from water - Sluuuuurp!
How lucky were we with the weather today for our task on Leverhulme Park? We were digging out a pond and mud from silt traps, channeling...


Hedge Enough
It was NEWT's third and final hedgelaying task for the year and the final stretch of the hedge to lay outside SS Osmunds and Andrews....


Regrowth through hacking and slashing
Newt returned for our 2nd of 3 visits to the hedgerow outside SS Osmunds and Andrews. As the work began we started by freeing the...


Dragged through a hedge backwards!
Today Bolton NEWT were out on New House Farm playing fields practising the ancient art of hedge laying. Chris, Simon, Del, Jasmine and...


Magical Winter Forest
On the 21st December Bolton NEWT held it's second Christmas Event, which is now becoming an annual tradition. The first year we hosted...


Deep and crisp and even
A crisp clear morning greeted the NEWT team as we trundled through Leverhulme Park with our trailer of tools. Our task today was clearing...
North East Wildlife Trail
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